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I completely agree with everything you wrote, with one small exception: Venezuela was destabilized by Putin's goon Maduro. Per-capita GDP has dropped 3/4-fold [1]. This accomplished two things:

- Reduce world oil production, boosting world prices and thus Russia's revenues.

- Create a migrant wave. This was the Western Hemisphere equivalent of the Syrian wave engineered by Assad, another goon. The waves are weaponized into anti-migrant hysteria by Putin's goons in countries that still have meaningful elections.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/371876/gross-domestic-pr...